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[Pork]

Tell me its not only me?

Looking for a very specific spec'd car at the mo, two items of which are xenon lights and climate control.

Saw one this morning, supposedly has both. Pics sent through - no washers for xenons (isn't that an MOT fail, if they are factory fitted xenons?) and climate control is infact air con. I'll grant you, its a moot point but it makes a difference.

Is it just me or do you find that when looking at cars, you can feel that you know what you're looking at more than the person selling?

/Pedant

[Republik1980]

Yeah, tells you a bit about the seller too - especially if it's a dealer.

I saw a dealer-offered Boxster recently that had apparently just had it's cam belt done. Funny that, since the cams are chain driven...

[Magic919]

Pedants can't correctly use apostrophe shocker.

[Captain Muppet]

I've got no idea how to tell the difference between climate control and AC.

I would expect lots of other people to be just as ignorant as I am.

[Pork]

Magic919 said:

Pedants can't correctly use apostrophe shocker.

[anonymous-user]

At a guess op is looking at a mk5 golf? Those two extras transform a golf more so than any other car

[Pork]

Captain Muppet said:

I've got no idea how to tell the difference between climate control and AC.

I would expect lots of other people to be just as ignorant as I am.

In the car I'm interested in, its a clear option - air con is standard, climate was a £400 (rare) option. Its not the be all, end all, but if the advert says it has it, it should actually have it.

I get where you're coming from, I'd struggle to tell the difference, but then I don't sell cars for a living (ad. is a traders ad.)

[Pork]

acer12 said:

At a guess op is looking at a mk5 golf? Those two extras transform a golf more so than any other car

Ha, no, but if thats the case, it kind of underlines my point. I wouldnt say it transforms the car I want, but it makes its more desirable to me and if its in the ad, I'd expect it to be on the car.

Seems too much to ask

[Nemo Sum]

Pork said:

Tell me its not only me?

Lno washers for xenons (isn't that an MOT fail, if they are factory fitted xenons?)
/Pedant

I was under the belief (perhaps incorrectly) that it was only a fail if the washers were there and not working not just not there.

Doesn't excuse the misdescription if that is the case though!

[forzaminardi]

I can understand why if the ad says one thing and the car itself has another then the potential buyer would be miffed. But I have to admit that I don't know the difference between air con and climate control.

[K12beano]

Well, I am thick on this difference too!

I guess A/C just means it chucks out cold air, but "Climate Control" is some sort of more sophisticated thermostat?

Come on, what's the difference???

[Pork]

In this instance, a/c just has the option to make it warmer/colder, where as the Climate Control has a seperate digital temperature setting for driver/passenger which is set and then maintained.

As I say, its a small difference. In reality, there's practically very little difference.

Ah, also, the car was advertised as manual (which I want, and is rare), but its shown as auto in the pics....and is, sure enough, an auto.